Senior Infant work Class teacher: Niamh Waldron

Dear Parents I hope you are all keeping safe and well and enjoying the nice weather. This fortnight I put up plan of work and lots more activities that can you can download from the school website. New things to look out for a game I spy in Irish and a new digraph booklet to print (available on school website).

Please noteFolens is available online and you can access our Starlight Reading Scheme. Many of you now have being using this already. Password is on school website. We are moving onto a new unit15 Theme Holidays. April (20th-24th) (April 27th- May 1st)

English

Phonics /Word building

Just Phonics

New Digraph bookletAvailable to download from school website. (This is very much at the children’s wordbuilding level.)

Sounds make wordsPg 50 middle sounds ee/aiPg53 cross wordPg 56 Pg 60- ou Pg 69 -or

Reading

Shared reading Oxford reading tree online

Folens Starlight scheme: Unit:15Theme: Holidays Reader: A ride at the funfair pg 31-42

Please note Folens is available online we are using Starlight scheme senior infants Unit 15

Wordlist: unit 15A ride at the funfair available to download on Folens website

Elf Learning tricky words Phase 1/ 2/ 3/4(Keep moving up different levels)

Mr Cuddles Letters

Story Dear Zoo

Folens Starlight scheme Unit 15Theme: Holidays

Big book All

the fun of the fair

Writing Handout

Escaped zoo animal poster

Animal fact file (in zoo letter)

Shopping list Make a list of food items your family needs to buy

Write a letter to Mr Cuddles

Starlight skills Book Pg 55-58

All write now home school bookPg 28-HPg 29-APg 30-UPg31-SPg 32-z

Oral Language

Poster: The fairground Unit 15available online lots of lovely activities

Story mode Question

mode Label mode Activity

mode

available online lots of lovely activities Unit 15Theme Holidays

Poems April

This is the sun

Ice-cream

Maths

Practical maths Use containers of different sizes to see which holds more or which holds less

Mathematical language Holds more holds less, more than, less than, Most, least not as much as etc

Busy at Maths Pg 77/78/79Topic:Spatial awareness

Pg 116Pg 117Pg 118Topic: Capacity

Counting Counting forward and backwards to and from 20 from different staring points

Counting by 2s as far as 10 Video kids tv 123

Maths rhyme Two four six eight(With poems)

Mental maths( children need lots of practice)*Adding 4 to a given number to totals of 10 Eg 1+4=3+4=

*Adding 5 to a given number to totals of 10 Eg2+5=1+5=

Handouts Number

bonds challenges 1& 2

Capacity

One more one less

Spring themed Dot to dot

More dot to dot activities on school website

Gaeilge

Bua na cainte ReviseThemeAn scoil Lth 7-11

Revise theme Bia lth 12-16

Cluiche /Game

Feicim le mo shúilín (on school website)

Please note for revision the pupils book Bua na cainte has great phrases at end of each page. It is also available online too.

PE

Rte junior 10@10 Episode 4

Go noodleMonster moves

PE with Joe The body coach tv lots of lovely lessons to check out

Endless opportunitiesObstacle courses, hopscotch skipping, football You can tell me all about them

Science

Videos virtual

tours of Dublin zoo

Dublin zoo Easter eggs extravaganza

Dublin zoo Birdwatching

Letter re Dublin zoo animal encyclopediaFocus: Zebras and chimpanzeeZebra Quiz Chimpanzee Quiz

HandoutAnimal fact file

Topic: Sound Sit outside for 2 minutes and listen to sounds you hear. Write your responses

Sit inside for 2 minutes and listen to sounds you hear in the house write your responses

Poems for Senior Infants

This is the sun

This is the sun so big and round

This is the seed snug in the ground

These are the flowers that wave in the breeze

These are the yachts that sail in the seas.

April

April is a rainbow month

Of sudden Springtime showers

Bright with golden daffodils

And lots of pretty flowers

Ice cream, Ice cream

Ice cream, ice cream in a bowl

(make circle with hands)

Ice cream, ice cream, nice and cold

(shivering motion)

Ice cream, ice cream what a treat

(clap 3 times)

Ice cream, ice cream good to eat

(Rub tummy)

Maths Rhyme

2,4,6,8,

Meet me at the garden gate

If I’m late do not wait

2,4,6,8